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Reading Time: 5 minutes As of the beginning of 2018 there are potentially several defining aspects for the upcoming year. The two top trends of 2017 were low volatility across the board and a sizeable increase to record highs in risk on assets such as equity indexes or cryptocurrencies, which as we detailed previously…CONTINUE READING

Reading Time: 5 minutes Throughout the expansion from about 2010 to 2016 the Federal Reserve told us it wanted to step back from its stimulative policies, which were QE and zero percent interest rates, but it couldn’t because fiscal stimulus wasn’t coming. Furthermore, there have been times in that period where fiscal policy hurt…CONTINUE READING

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ten years following the global financial crisis of 2008, the US economy is showing an impressive growth trajectory based on GDP numbers. The economy reached $18.75 trillion in size in 2016. The S&P 500 is reaching new highs almost on a weekly basis and also showing a positive growth trend. But…CONTINUE READING

Reading Time: 4 minutes Corporate welfare is when companies get special grants, subsidies, tax breaks, or other benefits which aren’t given to other businesses. Often big businesses get these breaks because they are more powerful. They have more more power because they create many jobs, and most importantly, they have a lot of money…CONTINUE READING

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this article, I will review the economic and financial news from the past quarter, quarter one (Q1), just ended on March 31st. It was a good week for stocks as you can see from the chart of the S&P 500 below. The S&P 500 was up 0.80% for the…CONTINUE READING

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